In a recent research report and survey released by CoinGecko, 46.9% of crypto participants indicated that they were bullish on crypto AI products in 2025.
Specifically, CoinGecko noted that 19.9% felt somewhat bullish “about crypto AI products and a larger 27.0% of survey respondents were fully bullish.”
According to the research report, this comes as the use cases combining crypto with AI have “improved and are seeing more widespread adoption.”
Meanwhile, 24.1% of crypto participants were “somewhat or fully bearish on crypto AI products for the year.”
In other words, CoinGecko pointed out that almost 1 out of every 4 survey respondents “continue to feel skeptical about the potential of crypto AI technology and use cases, at least in the immediate term.”
Crypto participants expressed similarly consistent sentiments towards crypto AI token prices as well, with “44.3% of crypto participants bullish and 26.4% bearish.”
This perhaps shows that crypto participants are “not differentiating between crypto AI’s investing or trading potential, and the technology itself.”
Such market sentiments might in turn reflect expectations that now is the time for crypto AI to move beyond the conceptual stage and mature as a sector.
Nearly a third of survey respondents felt “neither positively or negatively about crypto AI’s product and token price potential in 2025, with 29.0% and 29.3% indicating a neutral stance respectively.”
In fact, most survey respondents selected “the ‘Neutral’ option, compared to ‘Bearish’, ‘Somewhat bearish’, ‘Somewhat bullish’ and ‘Bullish’, suggesting that a significant minority have no opinions on the crypto AI narrative or have not yet had enough time to form any.”
Among the self-identified ‘Innovators’ who led crypto AI adoption, unexpectedly less than “half or only 46.8% felt bullish about crypto AI products, while a comparably high share of 28.9% were bearish.”
Similarly, just 44.8% of the ‘Innovator’ group “were bullish on crypto AI token prices, while 30.0% were bearish.”
Based on the relatively lower share of “bullish sentiment and higher share of bearish sentiment, ‘Innovators’ seem to still have mixed views despite being among the first to catch the crypto AI narrative.”
On the other hand, the distribution of “bullish, bearish and neutral sentiments were more in line with expectations for the remaining ‘Early adopter’, ‘Early majority’, ‘Late majority’ and ‘Laggard’ groups.”
The ‘Early adopter’ and ‘Early majority’ groups “were the most bullish, albeit by a slight margin, as well as the least bearish in their sentiments toward both crypto AI products and token prices.”
Meanwhile, the ‘Late majority’ group turned out “to be the least bullish on crypto AI products with just 33.9% of the group expressing positive sentiments.”
That said, the ‘Laggard’ group was the most bearish overall, “with 41.3% indicating that they were bearish on crypto AI products and 43.1% bearish on token prices.”
Notably, the ‘Laggard’ group also had the “smallest share of neutral sentiments, which suggests that this group has the strongest opinions despite being the latest to the crypto AI narrative.”
Methodology
The research study has reportedly examined “2,632 crypto participants’ responses in the anonymous CoinGecko Crypto x AI Survey, which ran from February 20 to March 10, 2025. Survey results should be taken as indicative only.”
Among the survey participants, “51% considered themselves as crypto investors with mainly long-term holdings, 26% identified as traders with mainly shorter-term holdings, 10% as builders and 13% as sidelined spectators.”
In terms of how long participants had been in crypto, “53% were in their first cycle (0 to 3 years in crypto), 34% in their second cycle (4 to 7 years) and the remaining participants were veterans with 8 or more years of experience.”
Geographically, 93% of participants stated that they “were based in Europe, Asia, North America and Africa, while the rest were in Oceania or South America.”
